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Space rock is a style of British Alternative Rock bands with a more shimmering, melodic sound. More than most genres of music, space rock has a single seminal album, Hawkwind's '' Space Ritual '' ( 1973 ), a two-disk live album advertised as "88 minutes of brain-damage" documenting Hawkwind's successful 1972 tour of their blow-out show complete with liquid lights and lasers, nude dancers (notably the earth-mother figure Stacia), wild costumes, and psychedelic imagery. This hard-edged concert experience provided an alternative to the increasingly relaxed work of Pink Floyd (and across the Atlantic the Grateful Dead ) and attracted a motley but dedicated collection of psychedelic drugs users, science-fiction fans, and motorcycle riders. The science fiction author 's ''Time of the Hawklords'' (with a later sequel written only by Butterworth titled ''Queens of Deliria''). An album ''The New Worlds Fair'' by "Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix" was released in 1975 , which included a number of Hawkwind regulars in the credits. ("The Deep Fix" was the title story of an obscure collection of short stories by " James Colvin " published in the 1960s ). Moorcock wrote the lyrics to an album track entitled "Black Blade", referring to the sword Stormbringer in the Elric books, by the American band Blue Öyster Cult : Moorcock has even performed this song live with BÖC. The cyberpunk author John Shirley has also contributed to the lyrics of BÖC. By the early 1990s , mainly British alternative rock genres like space rock, Twee Pop , Shoegazing and Noise Pop emerged into the mainstream with the explosion of Britpop bands like Blur , Suede and Oasis . By 1991 (see 1991 In Music ), though, the original space rock bands had mostly fallen apart, and the musicians had moved on to new bands or new styles. ODDITY: ODD DITTY The probable earliest example of something like space rock is a song written in the on ''Argo Records'' label). A much shorter version of the same song was recorded in the 1960s by Shirley Collins . EARLY SPACE ROCK
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